i know it has been on here before but has anyone ever used them (or know of someone)?
if so any pics or advice/comments about them?
my dad is a welder (boiler maker) so that shouldn't be an issue.
i only need em on the rear but am hesitant about ruining my guards if they turn out to be pus!

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Thanks again
Tom

havent used em but have being thinking about them, first if u want em dont buy them from there just get mesurements and take it to a sheet metal place theyll do it mega cheap... also im thinking just cutting flares from stock guards from another car eg: old civics have nice ones.. would be much easier to weld in.. just my thoughts anyway.

yea did think of that but these are good cos you shape them to the original arch. just seems like would be easier to keep em more "stock" looking. not in a rush so just have to see what others say. can also get my guards pumped out by a mate at a crash repairer but he says they sometimes get a bit warped. if worse comes to worse ill get it panel beated professionally. but still wanna know more about these

lots of work involved with those! heaps of welding (can easily warp the panel), heaps of grinding, and heaps of bogging! and with that 20mm inner lip you won't actually get any extra useable room. And how bad is the wheelarch line in their "ready for paint" photo? lol

fibreglass bolt on flares ftw. they allow you to cut out behind them to gain some useable clearance, the simply bolt on, and because they hide the cut out, you don't have to spend hours dressing the gaurd cut mods.

i don't know how to put pics in the thread but i have cut down fibreglass ones and glassed them to both the front and rear of my coupe. i then cut out inside them to get more clearence.

i hope someone can put the pics in here to show you, cause they ended looking nearly factory....i can now fit 215/45/17's on the rear without hitting anything.

FLARES!! #### you should have to use flares unless you're running huge tyres or hugely wide rims. Camber and decent tyres usually fixes that problemo. and sometimes a dolly and hammer too...

i can hear some of you bout to cry out... its an opinion.

its for the rear. the diff was cut to suit the old rims i was goin to use and now my superlites stick out a little (15mm or so (with tires)) i am only running 205s on rear. i guess the weld on kit isnt too great then. have to look at some other options i guess
thanks everyone

Hi all,

I have done lots of flaring of panels and prefer the look over fiberglass flares. unless they need to be huge.

To look good the wheels have to fill out the bodywork or the flares just cover the wheels (sorta the same thing).

Front guards have to be removed and the standard edge opened out. Draw a line where the new flare will extend to.

Using a pear shaped mallot work the new shape into a sand bag or similar, gradualy stretching the metal to get close to the desired shape and size before finishing the flare of with a planishing hammer and dollys.

To finish off the edge is refomed using a convex planishing hamer and dolly.

It could be metal finished or a very light skim of filler to get rid of a few hammer marks.

It can be almost a factory look if done well.

I can do this for any one that wants it done but freight could be a prob for the interstaters. I would have to know wheel/tyre suspension and ride hight combo.
or have the car.

There is one example in my photos on the coupe, i didnt flare these that much but removed some material before working the flare.

BTW there would be a cost involved as it takes time to produce a good result.

Or i could coach people on the phone if they wanted try to do it themselves.

Cheers, Simon.

Mine have been flared by hand as well took a long time but it was worth it

for 15mm I'd be pumping/flaring the original wheelarch rather than fitting flares. I managed to do it to my old coupe whe I fitted a wider Corolla BW diff, so it can't be that hard!




Quote: some of us have different definitions of 'decent tyres'. eg I don't think skinnier is better.